The first 50 minutes are more an adventure movie, with at times beautiful mountain shots. But once we get the first encounter with the Yetis, it turns into an at times surprisingly suspenseful man Vs nature thriller with horror touch, that knows how to get the most out of not showing us anything. ----- #131 in 2017 DVD

First: The werewolf doesn't look like the one on the poster at all. The werewolf design in this movie is fucking awful. It looks like that weird bat gremlin thing that sat next to Jabba The Hut fucked a guy in a gorilla suit.

Apart from that: That is one great movie! Very suspenseful werewolf attacks, an (for a creature feature) unusual story structure that leaves a lot of breathing room for compelling human drama and a great cast, from…

There are two kinds of cult movies. There are the ROCKY HORRORs and BLACK DYNAMITEs and then there are the MACHETE KILLSes, SHARKNADOs and KUNG FURYs. In the first category are movies, that are made by people who had a cool idea and carefully put together a movie that they can be proud of. The second category are movies, made by people, who just randomly slap every image from their ADHD ridden stoner brain together, without any feeling for rhythm…

Maybe it’s just my love for the classic slapstick subgenre in general, but this is my favourite Spielberg movie. The gags come fast, most of them are silly, but almost all of them stick one way or another. And the spectacle, that dominates the 2nd half of the movie (and there is a lot of it), is as perfectly staged as you expect it from a Spielberg movie.